Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: July 5, 2011
Colorblindness isn’t rare, and at least one of WordPress’s themes is completely inaccessible to me. (Red hyperlinks, black text, no underlining except with mouseover. Can’t see the difference.) I haven’t looked at the others in depth or anything but how do you manage to make your prepackaged themes inaccesible. You’re not a person throwing up [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: June 17, 2011
(crossposted on tumblr) So anyway, Cabbage was just applying for a job and one of the steps prior to getting an interview was like… fill out this questionaire where you say you’re extroverted and organized and have no disabilities. I maaaay have taken down the problematic questions. (There were about fifty questions total, problematic and [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: April 19, 2011
(I also wrote a less formal discussion of what I liked about Portal 2 on my Tumblr. This document contains spoilers.) Portal 2 is unfortunately not nearly as inclusive as the first. The first the worst problem (that I noticed) was that there was some implication that GlaDOS’s amorality was being equated with people with [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: January 20, 2011
Again, this is one of those “I really should get a tumblr for these types of things” posts. I was checking out my monthly traffic, and guess what? Looking at your traffic breakdown by month is a terrible idea when you’re blog’s only been around two weeks.
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: January 14, 2011
We all know about hypersexualized armor. Oblivion does a bit better on that but it still is kind of terrible sometimes. For example, this happened: I mean seriously that’s exactly why this type of armor makes no sense. (Also I went with heavy armor with this character because it seemed like it would be less [...]
Posted by: EmilyEmilyEmily on: January 6, 2011
(I’m focusing mostly on video games and fantasy here, but the general ideas definitely appear elsewhere in speculative fiction, and moreso in other media. I’m just focusing on that combination because that’s where I’ve seen it the most lately, and also because fantasy video games seem to have not gotten passed making clones of Dungeons [...]
